in middle east i wish everyone involved regime change, situation is fucked with any of current people in power staying in power. Put Netanyahu, Assad, Erdogan, Khamenei and their cabinets and top people from Hezbollah in Hague then we can talk.

Great man theory doesn’t stop being great man theory if you add “and their cabinets” after.

At some point you need to engage with the problem of why things are the way they are, and the answer isn’t “The bad guy is in charge (and his cabinet)”

Your use of it is great, of course, but I can’t imagine it not eventually getting shut down after it produces some very disturbing headlines.

I appreciate your good humor since I think I came off as hostile

IMO the fact that fastfood jobs are considered temporary bootstrap jobs that you’re expected to be exploited to hell is bullshit and an indication of the absolutely broken moral compass of the corporate world. We could do without fast food, but that doesn’t mean we should pay them them minimum wage. Everyone deserves a livable wage no matter what they do.

I guess my perspective is that we’re talking about what OP wants to do in the present world, not what she could do in a hypothetical utopia (or just fairer society). So yeah, fast food jobs could be less terrible and should be, but at the moment they are absolutely not something to aspire to or even to recommend in many places because, again, they don’t even pay enough to live. Maybe OP is still living for free with a friend, in which case I guess it’s better than nothing, but in general it seems bad as a survival strategy.

Speaking for myself as someone who was dismissive, my best contribution to the answers here is that it’s reductionist to a seriously misleading extent. It seems like you have a couple of conditions contributing to your struggle, but it all gets reduced to “your number is too low.” As others have alluded to, how much of that is your adhd? How much is from some condition you may have that hasn’t been diagnosed because you have been unsupported throughout your life? I don’t think anyone is denying that you have real neurological conditions that hinder you, they just doubt low IQ as being a meaningful description of what you’re facing compared to something that gives a better causal explanation.

I’m sorry about how you were treated. That was fucked up and you didn’t deserve it.

I don’t think it’s over for you, it’ll just be difficult. You’re clearly able to overcome (presumably with effort and time) some of what you talk about since this is pretty well written.

Alcohol is pretty hazardous on all levels (I assume that’s what you cite as an addiction) but if you need pot to function, I see no problem with that besides it being another expense. It’s probably worth finding a support group in your area with respect to the alcoholism, though.

As far as I know, low IQ, insofar as we treat it as a credible concept at all, doesn’t correspond to not being able to do things, but it just taking longer to learn them. That’s probably not much of a consolation with respect to all that you’ve been through, but it’s relevant for looking forward because it means you don’t need to write things off as being something “for smarter people,” though there are definitely circumstances where the extra time it takes could make something not viable (like needing more time in college representing a significantly greater financial burden, possibly).

I think you can do it. Just remember that there is no shame in leaning on others; We’re a social, cooperative species.

If everyone was engineers and lawyers we’d have major problems keeping shops and fastfood open.

Alright, this is a little condescending. I think OP can aim a little higher than that and frankly probably will need to if she wants a living wage.

The fast food industry is basically a way for corporations to extract a pretty significant amount of labor value out of teenagers and the most desperate in society and all for the end result of contributing to society’s bad health. It’s not like society would collapse without it, unlike something like carpentry.

Lastly, insofar as IQ is a valid concept at all, studies say low IQ alone doesn’t prevent you from learning anything, it just makes it take longer to learn.

Edit: I apologize if it comes off like I’m going off on you, I just felt some things were worth noting. I like the rest of your comment.

I didn’t realize Mohammed bin Salman is part of KHamas.

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Did UT make a post or is it just for us to divine the reasoning behind based on the site being stupid?

Edit: Best wishes, btw

I thought the baby oil thing was to emphasize how it was just part of his standard proceedings to sex crime people (which, since it seems unclear by your post, he did actually do) in the same manner as a director having a couch in his office.

I’d like to see the “twitter algorithms and data” that made 15 million former Biden voters stay at home.

It was much easier in many places to do mail-in ballots thanks to covid lockdown measures in 2020.

What did you think that montage was for, with the poor family and the rich family, with the one reproducing prolifically and the other failing to reproduce at all?

dentist faction?

I don’t see any confiscated toothbrush in her hand, so she’s probably not working with the dentists.

Oh, I misunderstood your question, my bad. I read your wording as suggesting they were separate categories.

To answer your question, I think there’s still a paleocon/neocon rift, so there’s at least that much to distinguish elements of contemporary neoliberalism, but I think I agree with your implied thesis that the “left” wing of neoliberalism has withered to the point that it’s at least quite difficult to distinguish it as having values distinct from one of the further right wing, it just talks about them differently.

Neocon is a subcategory of neoliberal. Neoliberal is a big, overarching political ideology that encompasses Republicans, Democrats, and others. Neocon is a specific movement or trend within the “conservative” wing of neoliberalism.

Writing on hexbear, if you don’t want to get as many people jumping down your throat, it’s good to use the term that is closer to technically accurate, “the porn industry,” since exhibitionists do exist. That still doesn’t cover it either because there are various sorts of exploitative porn production outside of “the porn industry” but if you err on the side of rejecting acceptable practices rather than accepting unacceptable ones, they’ll call you a “SWERF” or a puritan or whatever happens to come to their mind at the moment.

That does look a lot like Trotsky

Edit: This prompted me to read a little about Kamenev, who I was vaguely familiar with from reading about the Purges as a sort of wrecker Ice Climbers pair with Zinoviev, but not even enough to recognize him in that picture though his visage is quite obvious. The Wikipedia page is pretty much exactly as dire as one would expect (including the amazing claim that the “show trials” were the product of “months of rehearsal,” along with more grim and uncontestable things like several members of his family being executed). On the lighter side:

Before leaving Siberia [having been sent into exile by the Tsarist government], Kamenev proposed sending a telegram thanking the Tsar’s brother Mikhail for refusing the throne. He was so embarrassed later by his action that he denied ever having sent it.

Everywhere I go I just see people saying that bad voters and non-voters have caused the end of the world.

I checked back and it’s still absolutely hell

Wild how it’s a binary choice between doing civility politics and being a Gestapo